instauration
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- instaurator noun
Etymology
Origin of instauration
First recorded in 1595–1605; from Latin instaurātiōn- (stem of instaurātiō ) “a renewing, repeating”; in- 2, store, -ation
Example Sentences
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In 1620 Francis Bacon called for a Great Instauration—‘instauration’ here means ‘founding’, and the term is suitably vague.
From Literature
But, despite some abstruse Jamesianisms like “instauration,” “peculation,” “invigilator,” and — my favorite — an “inspissatedly expressed and barely scrutable conjecture,” he tempers his stylistic mimicry to appeal to modern tastes, with shorter paragraphs and heightened urgency.
From Los Angeles Times
We aimed at nothing less than to speak of the instauration of spirit, and its incarnation in a beautiful form.
From Project Gutenberg
The instauration of general anaesthesia came from experiments made on man alone.
From Project Gutenberg
Its aim was to realise in political institutions that great instauration of which Bacon dreamed in the world of intelligence.
From Project Gutenberg
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